Talon Communications. Wireless and Video Product Development It s what we do!

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1 Talon Communications Wireless and Video Product Development It s what we do!

2 Talon Designed Products in 2012 (1 of 2) Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) Classroom Edition: Talon designed the DDR Classroom Edition s ultra-low power wireless system capable of supporting up to 48 dance mats. Key to the success of the product is the Talon custom high speed low latency radio stack. CES 2013 showcased the product and a U- tube video link is provided: Blood Alcohol Monitoring Device: Talon designed a Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) device with GPS, camera, Bluetooth and 3G modem in just ten weeks. The customer had previously spent 16 months attempting to develop the product. The BAC test result, photo and GPS location is transmitted from the device to a secure web portal for review. Sports Training Device: Talon Communications has designed a personal training device which includes a heart rate sensor and stride sensor. The RF design is based on the 2.4GHz ANT+ protocol. Using the wireless Heart Rate Based Training, the PEAR weight loss program helps customers train in the most efficient fat burning zones to maximize fat loss and reach weight loss goals. 2

3 Talon Designed Products in 2012 (2 of 2) Ultralight Flight Computer: Talon designed the 'Vario' flight computer using the latest highest performance low power components including Microcontroller, GPS and extremely accurate barometric sensor. Talon is currently manufacturing and shipping the retail ready boxed devices. The specifics of these modules are provided in the following link: Talon Certified Radio Modules: Talon Communications offers drop-in modules for a proven wireless solution to product design. Talon modules offer standards based or proprietary network solution to your product development needs. The specifics are provided in the following link: 3

4 Unique Domain Knowledge and Experience Low Power Radios from 300MHz to 2.4GHz: ZigBee TM / IEEE Bluetooth / Bluetooth Low Energy ANT+ WiFi Cellular M2M Proprietary Data Aggregation / Cloud: Data aggregation of real-time events IoS or Android Apps M2M direct cloud access PC Software / Base Station Video: MPEG-2, H.264 Systems Sensors Integration in Demanding Environments: Altimeters: GPS + barometric pressure Inertial Navigation, Dead Reckoning 3-Axis Accelerometers Pressure, Temperature Magnetic Compass Ultra-low Power Designs: Coin cell batteries Micro-amp or lower levels Display technology Low cost solutions Body Area Networks (BAN) Production and Manufacturing 4

5 Talon Communications Engineering Skills Engineering Skill Examples of Work Performed Systems Engineering Industrial Design/ Mechanical Design Hardware Design RF Design Embedded Software Engineering Application Level High Level Design (HLD), Use Cases Major Component Analysis / Selection Power, Costed Bill of Materials, RF, Form Factor Analysis Software/Hardware Architecture, Radio Protocol Enclosure Concept Development Mechanical Design, SLA Samples painted and textured Steel Mold, Offshore Production ABS Plastics Initial Prototype PCB, debug and verification Final Optimized PCB form factor RF Topology and PCB Design, Tuning Antenna Selection/Design, Tuning Event Driven Power Ultra Efficient Code Standards based networks including ZigBee, ANT+, Bluetooth LE, 6LowPAN, and emerging standards Proprietary protocol solutions for Star and Mesh Configurations Data Aggregation and Display Bluetooth LE to Smartphone M2M (3G, GSM, CDMA, WiFi) to Cloud Server 5

6 Talon Partners and Alliances Industry Alliances Technology Partners Coin Cell Powered MCU s and Radios Low Power ARM MCU s and ZigBee Radios Solid State Batteries Energy Harvesting Video and Audio Compression Ultra Low Power Proprietary and Bluetooth Radios Smart Energy Connectivity Low Power MCU s ZigBee Stack Low Power Radios 6

7 Hand Hygiene Monitoring System Medical Hand Hygiene Compliance Device Uses alcohol sensor for detecting and reporting when caregiver s hands have/have not been washed recently. Motion sensor in doorway Badge Nurses station Base Station Cloud Database Talon took design concept from whiteboard and delivered a turnkey, production ready system. Talon provided: Badge with alcohol sensor, radio, charger stand and Access Point Designed room sensor orbs using Talon invented motion detection system Developed base station with matching radio interface and central database access to cloud server See radio link 7

8 Wireless Healthcare - BAN Sensor Medical Electronic Bandage Shiver Detector Talon designed from scratch a robust ultra low power electronic bandage for detecting shivering in critical care patients. Shiver Sensors 1 2 Shiver Sensor shown actual size Access Point USB PC Talon provided: Sensor designed around CR1620 coin cell to continuously transmit 50 samples/second motion data for 4 days Minimum weight (2.7g) and size (21mm 2 ) Talon custom radio protocol for absolute lowest power consumption GHz star network utilizing a Talon proprietary protocol stack 8

9 Blast Detector and Calculator BAN Sensor Body Worn Blast Detector / Calculator Pressure Sensor 27.2 mm CR2032 coin cell PCB with 32 bit ARM microcontroller/dsp, High Speed Radio and RFID Talon took over this project from a company following their 1 year development effort. The original device proved the concept but was analog based and failed to perform reliably from unit to unit. Talon provided: Complete Digital Signal Processing (DSP) system architecture enabling extremely low unit to unit variability. DSP algorithm development and verification using MATLAB. Coin cell operation of 2 5,000 events per day. Wireless reader for event download. 9

10 Biometric Sensor Secure Identification Biometric HID Thumbprint Sensor Talon designed for TSA a biometric thumb sensor with wireless access to secure door locks. Talon provided: Talon performed major product redesign and brought production yield up to 98% (from <20%) Biometric finger printer reader for positively identifying owners Zero power display Activates door locks using ZigBee TM radio and control software Challenge was packaging on HID card 10

11 Other Talon activities with BAN Wireless GPS location devices Blood pressure patches Pulse oximeters Helmet heat sensing unit Impact sensors G forces Heart monitors (EKG) Integrated heart rate data Activity monitors Assessment of biomechanics - walking or running 11